Airport Reservation Office (ARO)

What Does the Airport Reservation Office (ARO) Do?

The FAA’s Airport Reservation Office, or ARO, handles reservations of IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) operations at Slot Controlled Airports (La Guardia and Ronald Reagan Washington National) all the time and at other airports when there is more than the usual amount of traffic, usually due to a special event such as the Olympics. The ARO controls the number of arrivals at a specific location during a certain period of time and only allows for a certain number of reservations for flights at each airport.